Another reason to avoid flavored coffee - Coffees • #coffee

Obliterative Bronchiolitis in Workers in a Coffee-Processing Facility wrote: These two cases of obliterative bronchiolitis in a coffee-processing facility suggest expansion of the number of workers potentially at risk for flavoring-chemical related disease. They raise concerns about the current adequacy of identification of at-risk workers and workplace controls, and about possible underreporting of disease. Especially of note is the short employment tenure of affected workers and their apparent rapid decline in lung function...CDC currently is evaluating health hazards at this facility to identify other potential cases, understand occupational exposures, and prevent new cases. Diacetyl, implicated as the cause of obliterative bronchiolitis in workers exposed to flavorings, was present in this workplace, according to some material safety data sheets accompanying flavoring ...